When Joe Foss -- then the commissioner of the upstart AFL -- sent a letter to his NFL counterpart, Pete Rozelle, in December ...
3, The Second World War, ed. Millett and Murray (Boston ... Raizo Tanaka, with Roger Pineau, “Japan’s Losing Struggle for Guadalcanal,” part 2, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 82, no. 8 (August 1956) ...
On February 9, 1969, the Boeing 747, the world’s first wide-body jet, took its maiden flight, revolutionising air travel.
The USS Enterprise (CV-6), an aircraft carrier, was the most decorated American naval vessel to fight in World War II and ...
causing the U.S. to enter World War II. Over two years would pass until the Allies reached their great turning point in the Pacific War: the defeat of the Japanese at Guadalcanal in February 1943.
World War II veteran Walt Travis recently celebrated his 101st birthday in style with three celebrations: a private family party, an open house, and a community party at Westmont of […] ...
Every day starts a new story. The brutal battle for Okinawa lasted three months. By comparison it took six months to secure ...
Naval vessels are staffed by some of the most courageous people in uniform you’ll ever meet. This was doubly true ...
They confounded Japanese military cryptologists during World War II and participated in all assaults the Marines led in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945, including at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Peleliu and ...